Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly a Hurricane came down in a screaming dive and splashed into the sea . |
| 2 | I closed my eyes but seconds later there was a scream and the sound of crashing undergrowth ; Matata had found a snake curled up in the warm ash of the fire . |
| 3 | Shortly after their third visit a fight broke out in the street . |
| 4 | So I tried the RSPCA inspector , but it seemed he was more concerned with a cow wandering about in a shopping mall in Carmarthen . |
| 5 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 6 | King Charles VII won Bayonne back from the foreigners in 1451 after a siege and , if a plaque set up in the cathedral has it right , with a little supernatural help . |
| 7 | A light went on in the house opposite . |
| 8 | Sure enough , a light came on in the middle floor of the wing . |
| 9 | Williams made similar deductions following a study carried out in the United States . |
| 10 | A study carried out in the mid-1980s in a South London day hospital and in local day centres examined the ordinary , everyday needs and specific treatment requirements of attenders . |
| 11 | This search follows a study carried out in the refugee camps of Southeast Asia and supported by ESRC . |
| 12 | battery wrote in his journal during the peak of the March battle on the Right Bank ; ‘ the fine weather continues , the days lengthen ; it is a pleasure to get up in the morning … ’ |
| 13 | It can be a pig to set up in the most efficient way as regards memory , because it can use a tremendous amount of the base 640k of a PC . |
| 14 | We speak of a judgement in a particular case or of a rule laid down in a judgement as being undoubtedly according to law , but as being ‘ unfair ’ or ‘ unjust ’ or ‘ inequitable ’ . |
| 15 | Outside , the bad dog recommenced barking rather savagely as a car drew up in the yard . |
| 16 | As we spoke , a car drew up in the carport ( which incidentally was still just as I 'd built it 15 years ago ! ) and to our astonishment ( because the ownership had changed since we sold it ) the lady recognised us ( she 'd been given our Edinburgh address by a mutual friend and had actually called on us once , which we 'd totally forgotten ! ) . |
| 17 | Then a car drew up in the courtyard and at the same time the telephone rang . |
| 18 | You see a car roll over in a film and people get up and walk away ; people I know have rolled cars and broken arms and legs . ’ |
| 19 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 20 | That means I have n't got a key to get back in the house . |
| 21 | At one point a child calls out in the background . |
| 22 | Let us consider the poverty of understanding which a child growing up in a religiously deprived background might have of one of the most evocative concepts in religious language , that of " heaven " . |
| 23 | Even as a child growing up in the Fifties , she and her sister , Marlene , preferred to spend their sixpence pocket money on animal welfare classes run by a local RSPCA inspector rather than go to the cinema . |
| 24 | He felt like a child caught out in a lie . |
| 25 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |
| 26 | Book-oriented homes lead to book-oriented children : a child brought up in a home where reading is encouraged as a major activity is more likely to read voraciously from an early age . |
| 27 | Masklin supposed it was the machine 's equivalent of a nome getting up in the morning . |
| 28 | A polity grew up in the nineteenth century that , through changes of regime , was characterized by its narrow social base and the ‘ exclusion of subordinate classes from any form of participation in the political sphere ’ ( Giner 1985 : 311 ) . |
| 29 | Erm I 've got a girl sitting down in the foyer . |
| 30 | A girl brought up in a convent with the whole town knowing her circumstances could not be expected to feel any warmth towards the people who lived in splendour over in Westlands . |